# Guests on the MOO

Christopher Unkel (cunkel@us.itd.umich.edu)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:02:32 PDT

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    On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Brian E. Murfin wrote:

    > Oops, one more question, I have three processes running when the MOO is
    > up.  Is this normal? If not, how can it be corrected?  (I have the latest
    > version of LambdaMOO running on a Silicon Graphics machine under Irix.)

    This is normal.  The server uses two accessory processes to perform
    host-name and host-address lookups with timeouts.  (The processes are
    relatively small.)

    When the MOO is checkpointing, you'll see a fourth (big) process, unless
    you've turned forked checkpointing off.

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